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No. 584,784. Patented June22, 1897.

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ARTHUR KEMPER, OF BATH-ON-THE-I-IUDSON, NEV YORK.

TOY PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 584,784, dated J' une 22, 1897. Application led November l2, 1896. Serial No. 611,849. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR KEMPER, of

Bath-onthe-IIudson, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Toy Puzzles, of which the following is a full and exact description.

This invention relates tothat class of toy puzzles in which it. is the object to cause` a rolling ball to `enter or pass through or into a certain space er opening, in effecting which much dexterity and skill, besides a steady hand, is required, and amusement can be derived therefrom.

In the accompanying drawings, which are herein referred to and form part of this speciiication, Figure l is a side elevation of my invention; Fig. 2, a transverse section at the line X X on Fig. 3; Fig. 3, a longitudinal seotion at the line Y Y on Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 a longitudinal central section of my invention in a casing composed entirely of glass.

My invention consists of a hollow cylinder of glass or other transparent material provided With a loosely-pivoted central partition arranged longitudinally in said cylinder, said partition being provided with a central opening leading from one side of it to the opposite side, and a ball of a slightly smaller caliber than the diameter of said opening.

As represented in the drawings, A designates the transparent cylinder of my puzzle, Which may be made of any convenient size. As shown in the first three iigures of the drawings, said cylinder is formed open atboth ends with heads B, of cardboard or other suitable material, forming closures for said ends, and has caps F, which are cemented to said cylinder to form supplementary protection to the heads l; but, as shown in Fig. 4, the cylinder A' has a head B' formed in one of its ends, said head being integral With the cylinder and having a concavity l formed centrally in its inner face, which concavity is for a purpose hereinafter explained. The opposite end of the` cylinder A is recessed, as at 2, and a separate disk or head B2 is fitted to enter said recess and is secured therein by cementation. A concavity 3 is'formed centrally in the inner face of said disk for a purpose hereinafter explained. In both ends ot' the chamber of said cylinder A' cardboard disks or heads B8 are secured, said disks being provided for a purpose that will be shortly explained herein.

C is a revoluble partition that is arranged longitudinally in the chamber of thecylinder A or A. Said partition is iitted to rotate loosely on pivots 4L, that are secured iixedly in the cardboard heads-either B or B3, according to the construction of the cylinder usedand it should be understood that the partition C must be fitted to turn on the pivots 4 with sui'iicient ease and freedom to allow said partition to acquire a rotative motion When the slightest pressure is applied near one of its'edges; The Width of said partition is less than the diameter of the bore of the cylinder in Which it is placed, thereby avoiding frictional contact of the partition with the cylinder, and said partition is preferably made of light weight, and in order to positivelyrdetermine that the ball has passed from one side of the partition to the opposite side the opposite flat faces of the partition are colored differently. In the center of the flat faces of said partition an opening D is formed through the partition, and preferably said opening is i circular in form.

E is a globular ball-commonly a marble used by children-having sufiicient Weight to impart a rotative movement to the partition C when bearing upon a flat face of the latter. Said ball should be slightly smaller in diameter than the opening D, so that it will pass loosely thron gh the latter, and it is contained in the cylinder at either side of the partition.

The object to be attained with my puzzle is to cause the ball to pass from the chamber at one side of the partition into the chamber at the opposite side of the partition, and this may be effected either by imparting motion to the cylinder to cause the ball to accidentally pass through the opening of the partition or by carefully turning the cylinder until the partition is in a level position and the ball directly under the opening, and then suddenly and dexterously lowering the cylinder to cause the ball to pass through said opening, the latter mode requiring much skill and steadiness of hand. The different-colored sides of the partition Will enable one to correctly determine Whether the ball has passed from one side to the other or not.

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It is obvious that the cylinder of my puzzle need not be entirely transparent over its entire surface, for the same end can be attained by making a portion of the same transparent, if the fact of the ball being at the opposite side of the partition from Where it Was can be definitely determined.

Vhat l Claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The toy puzzle herein described, the same Comprising a oylinder,a partition loosely revoluble in said eylinder and arranged to divide the latterinto separate compartments; said partition having an opening that leads from one of said compartments into the other oompartment, and a ball itted to pass loosely ARTHUR KEMPER.

Vitnesses':

WM. H. Low, GEO. W. BARRETT. 

